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The Strange Case of ''The Angels of Mons'' Poetry and nurses during World WarDescription by Richard J. Bleiler Paperback World War I began disastrously for the English when the Germans routed them at Mons, Belgium, on August 23 and 24, 1914. On September 29, 1914, the Anglo Welsh writer Arthur Machen fictionalized this encounter in a newspaper story, claiming that the English were saved by the appearance of angelic bowmen sent by St. George. But his fiction became accepted as fact. The believersnotables G. K. Chesterton,